The president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission has temporarily banned raves at the venue following the death of a 15-year-old who had attended the massive Electric Daisy Carnival there over the weekend.

In a Wednesday letter obtained by the Weekly, commission president Barry A. Sanders responded to county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's request for a temporary ban on raves at the historic venue: "I, as president, will instruct management to observe such a moratorium in the period between now and our meeting" in July, at which a longer ban will be discussed. Of course ...

... as far as we can tell, EDC, as it's known, is the only such event large enough to command the breadth and size of the coliseum.

Event organizers claimed that 185,000 attended over two days, Friday and Saturday. The girl, later identified as Sasha Rodriguez, died at a hospital Tuesday. Doctors suspect drug intoxication, but the exact cause won't be known until an autopsy is performed.

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Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.